Sentences with phrase «electoral reform in»

A recent deal between the government and the opposition provides a framework for political and electoral reform in the wake of a 2013 election condemned as fraudulent by the opposition.

I hope that all the opposition parties, backed by a popular movement throughout the country, unite to press the Tory - Lib Dem government to give the public the option of genuine electoral reform in a referendum.

It was launched in expectation that a hung parliament would open up political space for movement on electoral reform in the UK.

Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens» movement for electoral reform in Canada.

Tessa Jowell was among a number of cabinet ministers who today mounted a last - ditch effort to include a referendum on electoral reform in the Queen's speech next week.

Cameron divulged that Gordon Brown was intent on offering the Liberal Democrats the guarantee of electoral reform in return for a Lib / Lab pact.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

Indeed voters already made clear their views on electoral reform in the defeated 2011 AV referendum

This naturally implies that any pushes for electoral reform in the future should consider alternatives that account for this issue.

[9] However, there have been several referendums in New Zealand's history, most recently to decide the nature of electoral reform in New Zealand.

It could have important implications for the future of electoral reform in Britain and for the possibility of future LibLab alliances.

Despite having a tenured position I left academia and have been working on electoral reform in Oregon since moving here ten years ago.

Might Cameron consider electoral reform in exchange for a Labour - blocking deal with the Lib Dems?

Matthew Elliott, who played a key role in defeating Nick Clegg's plans for electoral reform in the No to AV campaign in 2011, will serve as chief executive.

Whatever the referendum result, it will not end the campaign for electoral reform in the UK

There is no mention of electoral reform in the Conservative manifesto, although in his speech yesterday David Cameron conceded that an all party committee of inquiry should take place on the issue.

This was a huge boost to our campaign as it was the first time that None of the Above had ever been acknowledged and officially endorsed as a possible electoral reform in and of itself.

However, the chances of electoral reform in the next parliament are close to non-existent.

(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)

Unfortunately, the Guide dates back to the first wave of electoral reform in the UK in 1999, but the Democratic Audit website also includes lots of useful material on recent voting system debates and controversies.

But sadly, such is often the quality of debate on electoral reform in the UK.

I have supported PR since 1990, and wrote in favour of electoral reform in the first piece I wrote on joining the Fabians in 2003.

It is also not beyond the realm of conceivability that the current Trudeau government in Canada, which promised electoral reform in its last campaign, would consider such a thing.

There are growing calls for electoral reform in Italy to prevent hung parliaments in the future.

Italy is likely to hold a referendum on electoral reform in late November.

Cuomo has not yet formally proposed any electoral reforms in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption scandals, but he has talked about the possibility of rescinding the Wilson - Pakula law following Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith's arrest for allegeding trying to bribe his way onto the GOP line in the New York City mayor's race.

A recent Democrat & Chronicle story on the push for electoral reforms in New York noted that the measures face «an uphill climb in the Republican - controlled Senate, where the GOP has long raised concern about opening the door to voter fraud.»

Voter fraud fear - mongering is a right - wing smokescreen designed to not only disenfranchise the poor and people of color, but thwart efforts to deliver sorely needed electoral reforms in New York and across country.

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has called for support for the Electoral Commission in order to deepen electoral reforms in the country.

Not exact matches

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

Ms. Taylor was also involved in the Electoral Commission Papua New Guinea project, an Australian Government project managed by CARDNO ACIL and was the Project Manager for The Electoral Reform Project, a European Union (EU) funded initiative operated by Transparency International (PNG) which was aimed at promoting democracy and advocacy for electoral rReform Project, a European Union (EU) funded initiative operated by Transparency International (PNG) which was aimed at promoting democracy and advocacy for electoral reformreform.

Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

Notley may be holding back for a number of reasons: (1) electoral reform wasn't part of her platform so she may be reluctant to spring it on Albertans, (2) she may be waiting to see how Trudeau's electoral reform works out and (3) she may be banking on the fact that the WR and PCs won't get it together in time for the next election.

A joint study of the voters» rolls by electoral reform groups Bersih and Engage found some cases in which dead voters were re-registered, and one voter whose birth year was listed as 1897

I had to watch Prime Minister Trudeau's epic electoral reform meltdown from a distance over the past couple of weeks given my attendance at an international meeting of progressive policy leaders in South Africa.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

In the past three weeks, he has returned home to lead a call for electoral reforms that has earned him instant celebrity, sent a stab of anxiety through the ruling class and raised fears of trouble at a planned rally in Islamabad on MondaIn the past three weeks, he has returned home to lead a call for electoral reforms that has earned him instant celebrity, sent a stab of anxiety through the ruling class and raised fears of trouble at a planned rally in Islamabad on Mondain Islamabad on Monday.

«Our agenda is just democratic electoral reforms,» Qadri told Reuters in the eastern city of Lahore, the headquarters of his Minhaj - ul - Quran religious foundation.

If you're in the U.K. and you want to contact your electoral candidates directly to ask about their stance on football reform, you can do so through votefootball.org.

Lib Dem peers had planned to support a Labour amendment to the electoral reform bill currently in the upper House.

If they deliver, on electoral reform, for instance, I'd be really encouraged by that because in some ways they're dealing with things the Labour Party would never go near and still won't.

AV is just neither here nor there, proportionality is where any electoral reform would derive its fairness and potentially in time improve the connection between voters and voted for.

Stuart My detailed argument was published in Fabian Review - How to reform the electoral system - in 2007.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

A key point in the drama comes when the camera lingers on Cameron's expression as he tells Tory backbenchers that Labour may have just offered the Lib Dems electoral reform without a referendum.

By the time he goes to the country again he needs House of Lords reform set in stone and civil liberties reinstalled, with AV acting as the electoral system used to judge his achievements.

I fear little in the way of electoral reform can work until this financial roadblock is removed.